Streamed Media and Films: Questions?

So, you've checked the library catalog and our film/media databases and haven't found what you're looking for yet...what else can you do?

The library may be able to purchase the film you are interested in using for classroom purposes, either as a streaming video or a physical item. Please contact your subject librarian if you there is a film that should would like to use, or alternatively, feel free to contact library director Morgan Tracy for available options. We will research your request and find the best way to gain access to the film.

Please allow at least 3 weeks in order to provide necessary time for contracts/agreements and streaming of materials, or for the delivery of physical materials.

The Four Factors Checklist

"Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered “fair,” such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair. Open the Columbia University checklist (Crews and Buttler) to print a copy for your own use.

1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

2. the nature of the copyrighted work; (fiction/creative or nonfiction/factual)

3. amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

4. he effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."

How Does the DMCA [Digital Millennium Coyright Act of 1998 Chapter 12, Sections 1201 and 1202)] affect my teaching?

Generally, it is illegal to circumvent TPMs on audiovisual worksto create compilations of clips. You must scroll or scan to the section of the video you wish to show. There is, however, an exemption that applies to faculty of any department or discipline using motion pictures on DVD. Faculty are permitted to circumvent TPMs of "lawfully made and acquired" motion pictures on DVD solely to incorporate "short portions" into new works "for the purpose of criticism or comment" when it is necessary to carry out an educational use. This rule also covers "college and university film and media studies students." Beyond explicit educational uses, the exemption also covers anyone who uses small portions of motion pictures in "documentary filmmaking and noncommercial videos." There is no definition of "short portions." See the 2009 "Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works."

Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia

University of Texas Copyright Crash Course; provides guidelines for a wide range of multimedia content

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